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κατηγουμένατο τὸν ἀντικείμενον· οὕτω καὶ ὕπεις μετὰ τὸ ἱερὸν. Βαπτίσματα καὶ τὸ μυστήριον Χρίσματα ἐνδεδυμένοι τὴν παντοπλίαν τοῦ ἁγίου Πνεύματος, ἵστασθαι πρὸς τὴν ἀντικείμενην δύναμιν καὶ ταύτην 'καταγωνίζεσθε' λέγοντες. Πάντα ἰσχύω ἐν τῷ ἐνδυναμοῦντι με Χριστῷ. 424
This is of course related to the prayer to make the catechumen [handwritten: ἀποτάσσομαι] ... 425 [handwritten: ἀποτάσσομαι] with the devil meant, at least, to Cyril of Jerusalem to face west. The partridge can be viewed properly only when one looks from east to west. This orientation is in contradistinction to that of K'1613 and, in all probability, is not accidental. This east-west orientation may have been chosen, so that the bather might see the partridge as he left the apodyterion (40), or it may have been chosen for religious reasons. This last or second possibility is the more probable, for oriented in a north-south direction, the partridge could have been viewed just as well before entering the apodyterion(40), [handwritten: ...] after. Now there is a tradition connection the partridge with baptism. 427 The Physiologus interpreted the partridge to mean Ἀγνίζον τὴν καρδίαν σου καὶ συλλήψονται σὺν ...
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain